Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association, New South Wales, and W D & H O Wills Holdings Ltd [2000] NSWIRComm 98

Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales

CITATION : Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association, New South Wales, and W D & H O Wills Holdings Ltd [2000] NSWIRComm 98 PARTIES : Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association, New South Wales W D & H O Wills Holdings Ltd FILE NUMBER: 3363 of 1999 CORAM: Sams DP Industrial Dispute - termination of employment - transmision of business - whether employees made redundant - whether employees unfairly dismissed - whether employees deemed to have resigned - offers of reasonable alernative employment - obligations on employers and employees - whether employer acted fairly and reasonably both substantively and procedurally - apprehension of victimisation. CATCHWORDS : Held, Transmission of business occurred - employees not redundant - employees refused to accept reasonable alternative employment - employees not dismissed - process of consultation fair and reasonable - orders refused. LEGISLATION CITED : Industrial Relations Act 1996 Brown v Dunn (1893) 6 R 67 Automotive Food Metals Engineering Printing and Kindred Industries Union v Newcastle Herald, Sams DP, Matter IRC4065 of 1998, 13 November 1998 Speers v St George Private Hospital and Medical Centre, Sams DP, Matter IRC2563 of 1999, 11 October 1999 Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees Assn (NSW) & Ors v Countdown, 7 IR 273 Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees Assn (NSW) v Myer (NSW) Ltd (1983) 7 IR 300 Re Clerks (State) Award (1987) 21 IR 29 Re Application for Redundancy Awards, 53 IR 419 Principles for Review of Awards (1998) 85 IR 38 Federated Clerks Union & Anor v Victorian Employers Federation, 154 CLR 472 at 502 Windsor Smith & Others, Giudice P, Polites SDP, Gay C, 17 July 1998, Print Q3462 at pp11-12 Outboard World v Muir, 51 IR 167 at 182 Aitken v Construction, Mining, Energy, Timberyards, Sawmills and Woodworkers Union of Australia - Western Australia Branch, 63 IR 1 at 7 Pickering & Ors v Skilled Communicatins Pty Ltd CASES CITED : (unreported) Murphy C, 29 March 2000 Clothing & Allied Trades Union of Australia v Algray Pty Ltd, 31 IR 365 Steppes Pty Ltd v Australian Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union, 86 IR 337 Australian Meat Industry Employees Union v South Australia, 89 IR 139 New South Wales Independent Education Union v Allambia Pty Ltd (unreported) Sams DP, 30 May 2000 North Western Health Care Network v Health Services Union of Australia, 164 ALR 147 Finance Sector of Australia v PP Consultants Pty Ltd [1999] FCA 1251 Alison v Bega Valley Council (1995) 63 IR 68 Britton v Riverstone Public School (unreported) Schmidt J, Sams DP and McLeay C, IRC5504 of 1999, 6 May 1999 Bates and Gundagai District Services Club (unreported) Walton VP, Sams DP, Redman C, 14 April 2000 Pacific Waste Management Pty Ltd v Saley 51 IR 339 Smith v Director-General of School Education (1993) 51 IR 204 Clark v Pittwater RSL Club Pty Ltd (1998) 84 IR 309 at 311-312 HEARING DATES: 03/27/2000; 03/28/2000 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 06/09/2000